CWP has successfully developed, financed and built numerous
projects totaling 1,525 MW and $4 billion of investment, and is currently developing projects with a combined capacity of over
6 GW in Europe through CWP Europe. In addition, CWP’s green
hydrogen pipeline currently includes 7 projects on 3 continents
and over 170 GW of planned wind and solar capacity.
Our team comprises domain experts for each technology we touch upon, with no ‘black boxes’ – we have a deep understanding of every field and define all transfer functions. We believe in self-reliance but engage consultants to deepen our knowledge of specific fields of technology. When we do, we partner with world-class engineering companies and specialists in their fields to help optimize system design.
CWP have developed in-house expertise across the entire PtX value chain driving optimal project design and continuous optimisation
Chief Technology Officer
Chief Technology Officer
Guido is a highly professional business executive in the Renewable Energy sector with 26 years of experience in Sales, Commercial Operations and Business Leadership. He structured and negotiated wind-turbine contracts in over 30 countries and closed transactions worth over $16B, many of them with global energy companies like Iberdrola, EDF, EDPR, E-ON, Engie, ERG, Total, CEZ and ENI.Director Hydrogen and Derivatives
Director Hydrogen and Derivatives
Marc joined CWP in January 2023 after 26 years of Electrochemistry and Renewable Energies in Industry and startups. Prior to joining CWP, Marc was Technology Lead Hydrogen, PtX and Energy Storage at Munich Re, the worldwide largest reinsurance company. At MR he did Technical Due Diligences on most of the leading Electrolyser- and Battery manufacturers for performance warranty insurance - thereof five years in Hong Kong as Head of Green Tech Solutions for Asia Pacific. Since his PhD in Chemistry in the off-highway sector of DaimlerChrysler and University of Hamburg, Marc developed fuel cell-, electrolyser- and battery technologies from cell to system level for 20 years. This arched from examination of reaction- and degradation mechanisms over the development of manufacturing processes and setup of serial productions to certification and deployment of commercial systems. In his spare time Marc enjoys open sea kayaking, visiting tropical rain forests, hiking and cooking.Director, Digital Twins and Tools
Director, Digital Twins and Tools
Philippe joined CWP in February 2022 as Team leader for Digital Twins and Tools. He has spent the last 10 years of his career in the renewables industry, working for Alstom then GE, focusing on commercial operations, risk management and digital transformation. With a strong drive for data, analytics and digital tools, he is now leading the development of simulations and optimizations for our PtX projects. Philippe holds a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Arts et Metiers ParisTech (France), and a master’s degree specialized in energy from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain). Aside from work he enjoys stand up paddling, wing foiling, and eating some Mediterranean food.Director of Power Generation & Distribution
Director of Power Generation & Distribution
Jens joined CWP in May 2022 after 15 years of experience in the renewables business. Prior to joining CWP, Jens was the commercial director Eastern Europe & CIS for the onshore wind business of General Electric. He and his team were responsible for offer preparation, risk management, terms & conditions, negotiation, costing and deal strategy for wind turbine supply and service contracts in the Baltics and Balkans countries, Ukraine, Greece, Israel, Poland and Kazakhstan. During previous commercial roles at GE Jens was active in Southeast Asia, Australia, Africa and Europe and closed transactions worth over $5B, including the order for a 780MW onshore wind farm in Sweden, which once completed will be Europe’s largest. Until 2007 Jens served as an armed forces officer in the German Army for 12 years, where he led a company of 120 soldiers. He participated in 2 peace-keeping missions with NATO in Bosnia and United Nations in Kosovo. Jens holds a university diploma in Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences with majors in structural engineering from the German Federal Armed Forces University Munich and an executive M.B.A. from European School of Business Reutlingen (Germany). He likes to spend his spare time with his family or doing outdoor sports such as mountain-biking, skiing or ski mountaineering and windsurfing.Director, Resource Assessment
Director, Resource Assessment
Vladimir has over 13 years of experience in renewables and has worked on projects totaling over 15GW. He has a passion to push boundaries and has spent most of his career working on new and emerging markets and technologies. Prior to joining CWP, he was a Senior Wind Analyst and Project Manager for Mott MacDonald providing technical advisory for some of the landmark projects in Thailand, the Philippines and Mongolia. Later with E.ON/RWE he was initially evaluating and managing innovation projects and then exploring new and emerging markets and project opportunities informing the company strategic expansion. Physicist by education, his core technical expertise is wind resource assessment and flow modelling. He has led over 100 met mast measuring campaigns, and participated in innovation projects studying wake interaction and optimization, exploring the limits of remote sensing technology and developing improvements in modelling and energy yield assessment techniques. Vladimir graduated as a BSc in Physics at Sofia University in 2006 and is now completing his MSc in Energy Markets and Services.Director of Infrastructure & Execution
Director of Infrastructure & Execution
Stephan joined CWP in August 2022, with more than 14 years of international experience in the Renewable Energy industry. Prior to joining CWP, Stephan was working for General Electric (GE) as Global Tendering Leader Onshore Wind International. During that assignment, he was heading a worldwide team of proposal managers, logistic and site assessment experts, supporting the sales and commercial teams to structure, budget, schedule and close new projects of various scopes, including full EPC turnkey. In previous roles at GE, Stephan was successfully negotiating and closing wind turbine sale agreements for projects across Europe, both technically and commercially. Until 2008, Stephan served as an officer in the German Army for 12 years, including an assignment to Bosnia during a peace keeping mission. He graduated in Electrical Engineering from University of German Federal Armed Forces in Munich and holds a M.Sc. degree in Management from University of Hagen. Outside of work, he enjoys hiking, gardening, reading, cooking and spending time with family and friends.
Choosing
the best sites
The best renewable resource is the starting point: we prioritize high average resources with narrow Weibull distributions and matching wind and solar diurnal and seasonal profiles. Our focus is on vast lands that are easy to navigate and construct upon, with initial data sourced from satellites, virtual data, and maps. Detailed, high-resolution site measurements are critical to our approach.
Optimization
We believe in delaying detailed design until it’s absolutely necessary. This is how we maintain flexibility, allow for optimization and remain technology agnostic, allowing for the evolution of technology. The model is central to our approach, focusing on both steady-state and dynamic operations.
Site-specific activities include measurements, site evaluations, stakeholder relationships, and environmental assessments.
We prioritize creativity and innovative thinking to challenge the status quo. Our approach is data-driven, leveraging state-of-the-art digital systems for modeling and optimization.
Our goal is to optimize every aspect of the project from site selection to FEED readiness, with the belief that intensive pre-FEED work will streamline the FEED studies, making project execution more predictable.
Innovative project
structure
Our projects are vast, encompassing a myriad of technologies. While these individual technologies have existed for decades, they have never been fully integrated on such a scale. The industry is experienced in planning and executing large projects, but the landscape is evolving, with traditional grid-connected operations transitioning to independent island operations with variable power. We are pioneering a new approach based on this, with no existing reference or baseline for green PtX projects.
In our projects, the upstream renewable power and electrolysis is distributed across the site area, with a building brick called “node”.
For each node, approximately 1GW of renewable power generation (whose ratio of wind to solar power is dependent on the location) feeds an electrolysis plant dimensioned at under 1 GW of capacity. This node model is replicated as many times as needed to reach the site full power (so a 26 GW project such as AREH would include 26 such nodes).
The nodes are connected through a transmission and distribution network. Pipelines feed each node water from a central desalination plant, and export hydrogen to downstream facilities such as ammonia or HBI plants. Power lines and cables operate in island grids, connecting turbines and solar powerplants to the electrolysers, while others feed downstream facilities. A road and track infrastructure links all nodes for operation and maintenance.
Downstream facilities finally are centralized in a single
location, which includes:
Flexibility in
downstream vectors
Our project structure and in-house expertise allows us to retain flexibility as to which vector will finally be produced in each project, in a way that will permit us to react to offtake market developments as markets mature in the medium term.
We not only monitor evolution of technologies, allowing that the dynamics and costs of projects might change as technologies develop and improve in efficiency, but we also monitor markets and their demand for different power-to-X products.
Our technology team designs our projects in such a way that they will be capable of producing multiple export vectors, including but not limited to:
Different transport vectors are being explored for the transport of hydrogen itself, for industrial consumers who may require it in the future. Green carbon capture processes are also being explored in order to meet potential production needs, including both Direct Air Capture and Direct Ocean Capture technologies.
In order to model project behavior in the face of multiple unknowns and uncertainties, CWP Global has developed a proprietary digital twin that integrates all the building blocks of multi-GW power-to-X projects, from renewables time series to kilograms of H2 or derivatives, with the objective of getting the lowest LCOX possible. Our team is integrating hundreds of technical and economical parameters together with complex electrical, physical and economical models, using a wide range of different skills and expertise, to leverage modern computation power and find the optimum design for each project.
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